AI Program and Product Management Leader

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Role Overview
Lumentum is seeking an AI Product Management & Operations leader to help drive our enterprise AI transformation. This role will coordinate across business stakeholders product owners data and engineering teams and external partners to ensure AI initiatives are prioritized well executed effectively and delivered on schedule. The ideal candidate is highly organized cross-functional business-oriented and comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy execution and stakeholder communication.

Role Summary
The AI Product Management & Operations leader will manage the intake prioritization tracking and operational governance of AI use cases across the organization. This person will help translate business demand into a clear portfolio roadmap coordinate execution with internal delivery teams monitor timelines and risks and communicate progress value and outcomes to leadership and stakeholders. This is a business and operational leadership role focused on alignment delivery and measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of AI products and initiatives across functions including intake assessment prioritization sequencing and status tracking.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases and clarify goals expected outcomes dependencies and success metrics.
• Coordinate closely with internal engineering data analytics product and operational teams to move initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Establish and run operating cadences for AI portfolio reviews delivery check-ins risk escalation and executive reporting.
• Track milestones schedules resource dependencies and delivery risks across multiple AI programs and workstreams.
• Ensure stakeholders are informed on progress blockers business value adoption readiness and realized impact.
• Support development of portfolio governance processes intake frameworks prioritization criteria and decision-making mechanisms.
• Help define and monitor KPIs related to AI delivery business adoption value realization and portfolio health.
• Coordinate with external vendors implementation partners and other third parties as needed.
• Drive follow-through across teams to ensure commitments are met and AI initiatives stay on time and aligned to business priorities.
• Support change management and operational readiness activities to improve adoption of AI solutions across the enterprise.

• Help build AI literacy across the organization through presentations workshops and enablement materials.

• Stay current with leading AI tools platforms and workflows and actively evaluate their relevance to Lumentum.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred in a relevant field such as engineering computer science business operations or related discipline.
• 15 years of experience in transformation strategy program management digital innovation or AI-adjacent leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives in a global matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of AI including generative AI enterprise AI automation data-driven workflows and related technologies.
• Experience working in manufacturing industrial engineering or similarly complex operational environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfort with AI tools and the ability to evaluate and prototype ideas

Preferred Attributes

• Modern transformation-oriented mindset with a bias toward action and measurable business impact.
• Able to operate effectively in ambiguity and create structure where needed.
• Highly collaborative credible with executives and effective across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong influence skills and the ability to drive alignment without direct authority.
• Passion for AI as a business enabler and organizational accelerator.

Pay Range:

Disclaimer:

Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors including but not limited to job location where work will be performed qualifications work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages which may include annual bonus commission for certain sales roles equity and health and welfare benefits.